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||490 BC: Greco-Persian Wars: Athenians and their Plataean allies turned back the first Persian invasion of Greece in the Battle of Marathon.
||490 BC: Greco-Persian Wars: Athenians and their Plataean allies turned back the first Persian invasion of Greece in the Battle of Marathon.
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||1897: Irène Joliot-Curie born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1897: Irène Joliot-Curie born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1877: Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel born ... mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Georg+Karl+Wilhelm+Hamel
||1877: Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel born ... mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device. Pic search.


File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.
File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.
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||1900: Jacob Mendes Da Costa dies ... physician. Pic.
||1900: Jacob Mendes Da Costa dies ... physician. Pic.


File:Norman Lorimer Dean with his Dean drive.jpg|link=Norman Lorimer Dean (nonfiction)|1902: Inventor [[Norman Lorimer Dean (nonfiction)|Norman Lorimer Dean]] born. Dean designed the Dean drive, which he promoted as a reactionless drive.
File:Norman Lorimer Dean with his Dean drive.jpg|link=Norman Lorimer Dean (nonfiction)|1902: Inventor [[Norman Lorimer Dean (nonfiction)|Norman Lorimer Dean]] born. Dean will design the Dean drive, which he will promote as a reactionless drive.


||1906: Ernesto Cesàro dies ... mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. Pic
||1906: Ernesto Cesàro dies ... mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. Pic.


||1917: Désiré André dies ... mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=désiré+andré
||1917: Désiré André dies ... mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations. Pic search.


||1918: Maxime Bôcher dies ... mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him. Pic.
||1918: Maxime Bôcher dies ... mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him. Pic.


||1923: Jules Violle dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=jules+violle
||1923: Jules Violle dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search.


||1927: Sarah Frances Whiting dies ... physicist and astronomer. Pic.
||1927: Sarah Frances Whiting dies ... physicist and astronomer. Pic.
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||1952: Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
||1952: Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.


||1953: Hugo Schmeisser dies ... weapons designer and engineer. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=hugo+schmeisser
||1953: Hugo Schmeisser dies ... weapons designer and engineer. Pic search.


||1959: The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
||1959: The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.


||1961: Carl Hermann dies ... physicist and academic ... crystallography. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Carl+Hermann
||1961: Carl Hermann dies ... physicist and academic ... crystallography. Pic search.


||1962: President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
||1962: President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
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||1992: NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
||1992: NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
||2001: Norman Ernest Borlaug dies ... agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Pic.


||2005: Serge Lang dies ... mathematician, author and academic. Pic.
||2005: Serge Lang dies ... mathematician, author and academic. Pic.
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||2016: Ali Javan dies ... physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Pic.
||2016: Ali Javan dies ... physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Pic.
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2017: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize.
File:Green Sprouts.jpg|link=Green Sprouts (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Green Sprouts (nonfiction)|Green Sprouts]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1725: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil born. He will discover what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).

    1725: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil born. He will discover what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).

  • 1900: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.

    1900: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.

  • 1902: Inventor Norman Lorimer Dean born. Dean will design the Dean drive, which he will promote as a reactionless drive.

    1902: Inventor Norman Lorimer Dean born. Dean will design the Dean drive, which he will promote as a reactionless drive.

  • 1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.

    1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.

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